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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 29 March 2012 09:47:29PM 1 point [-]

Wikipedia is not a sufficient justification for internet access because it is fairly easy to put a copy on the company LAN or even on each desktop.

Comment author: thomblake 29 March 2012 10:04:14PM 1 point [-]

I had no idea it was fairly easy to copy. Though checking Wikipedia, it looks like there's no easy way to get the images.

That said, there are lots of other things that I'd generally consider sufficient justification, but some of them (like e-mail and chat) can just be installed on the LAN, and others (like Stack Overflow and Github) are a bit computing-specific (and why computing professionals need Internet access is more of a no-brainer).

More importantly, if you don't have Internet access, you won't discover that something like Wikipedia might be helpful for your job.

Maybe I just don't have experience working in non-creative office jobs, and there really are people who never have questions that can be best answered by the Internet.